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Nigel Linge

Salford
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Professor Emeritus @SalfordUni who specialises in telecommunications. I have a keen interest in both the history and future of my subject. Own views.
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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s K2 Telephone Kiosk - A Design Classic

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By Nigel Linge, Neil Johannessen, Andrew Michael Hurley, Andy Simmons
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT The red telephone kiosk or box has become synonymous with Britain, standing as an icon of national identity. Yet, of all the versions of kiosk that have been introduced, only two have achieved this exalted status.
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In Celebration of the K8 Telephone Kiosk - Britain’s Last Red, Cast-Iron Phonebox

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By Nigel Linge, Andy Sutton, Andrew Michael Hurley, Neil Johannessen
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT Whilst every country in the world has introduced phoneboxes onto its streets, the United Kingdom stands alone in having adopted the red phonebox as a symbol of its national identity. However, that symbol is of phonebox designs produced by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1925/35 and not of the more contemporary ones that followed it. When introduced in 1968, the Bruce Martin-designed K8 kiosk or phonebox was hailed as a masterpiece of industrial design, yet today it has virtually disappeared.
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Andy Sutton - Academia.edu

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By Andy Sutton, Nigel Linge, Robert Looney, Hosea Mpogole
| academia.edu
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